Trade War

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday it will begin making a second round of 2019 trade aid payments to U.S. farmers next week. The payments are the second part of a three-tranche $16 billion aid package announced in May to c…

Tyler Lee Nov 15th, 2019Huawei has enough problems as it is, where right now due to a trade war between the US and China, Huawei is no longer allowed to do business with US companies, which we imagine is probably not doing them any favors. Now it looks like …

(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Friday, as positive comments related to the U.S.-China trade talks and strong earnings from semiconductor industry bellwether Applied Materials put the S&P 500 and Dow on track to hit fresh highs. White House…

Apple has enlisted the services of Jeffrey Miller, a well-known ally of President Donald Trump, to help in its ongoing battle to avoid fallout from the China-U.S. trade war. According to a lobbying registration form signed by Miller on Thursday, Apple hired t…

Reuters Mercedes-builder Daimler anticipates its transition to electric vehicles will further squeeze profits until 2022, Bloomberg reported Thursday.The margin headwinds call for job cuts and capped development spending, CEO Ola Kallenius s…

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will unify the way it calculates provincial economic output from early 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics said, amid scepticism about the reliability of Chinese data. The statistical bureau will lead the data reform by formula…

(Reuters) - Unilever (ULVR.L) UNc.AS on Wednesday named non-executive director Nils Andersen as its new chairman, appointing an executive with deep experience across consumer goods and logistics industries to help the Dove soap maker navigate a dip in emergin…

Image copyrightGetty Images Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, has said Berlin will be the site of its first European factory as the carmaker's expansion plans power ahead. Mr Musk said the firm would also build an engineering and design centre in the Ger…

Joern Pollex/Getty Images Global trade is marching on with or without the US.Next year, the world's biggest free trade deal could be signed.The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) would be made up of 15 countries.

Ian Walton/Getty Images UBS says that Trump's trade war tariffs will "scorch" US growth in 2020.The Swiss bank's research department said that the tariffs already put in place this year will "likely lead" to a slowdown in the first half of n…